Pope Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger, has scheduled a meeting with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano for Saturday, February 23 to discuss securing protection and immunity from prosecution from the Italian government, according to Italian media sources.

Ratzinger's meeting follows upon the apparent receipt by the Vatican of a diplomatic note from an undisclosed European government on February 4, stating its intention to issue an arrest warrant for Ratzinger, who resigned from his pontificate less than a week later.

In response to the February 23 meeting, the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS), through its field Secretary, Rev. Kevin Annett, has written to President Napolitano, asking him to refrain from assisting Ratzinger in evading justice.

They have an enormus amount of influence over people's perception. If you can't recognize that, I don't know what to tell you. They are not alone either. So the argument could made that HBO's presentation could have influenced tbis decision. However, I don't agree that the airing caused him to step down, but its possible it increased the pressure.

First time a pope steps down in 600 years. Call me odd, call me an ass but coincidences of this type are not going to fly with me. Feel free to say it was.

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High Tech is Sorcery and the people who are really powerful are literally telling people to commit crimes using the psychic interspace created by the WWW and Wireless. They are controlling peoples actions like drones . The two things are deeply intertwined. The more man's brain interfaces with machines the creepier it gets. They use brains separate from a human body in a supercomputer and you have The Image of the Beast. The military has been doing this since the 50s

Yes of course. This might have caused events to reach a tipping point but Ratzinger had to be removed as soon as possible much like lancing an infected boil allows it to drain and ultimately heal.

This situation will not heal. They will soon prop up another as infalable, and there is not a candidate available that did not know what went down. The fact whoever it is did not stand up in protest up to and including walking away means the replacement is no better than the man he will replace~

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This situation will not heal. They will soon prop up another as infalable, and there is not a candidate available that did not know what went down. The fact whoever it is did not stand up in protest up to and including walking away means the replacement is no better than the man he will replace~

__________________“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion"
Steven Weinberg~

I would love to hear your take on the matter as a rational Catholic (apologies if that's not true, I'm thinking that you self identified as Catholic) regarding the structure and hierarchy of the church, and how they might respond.

You want my comments on the structure and hierarchy of the Church in general, or with particular regards to the sex abuse?

Are they hiring from the outside? Lets see there has been a world wide ****ing little kids problem, the Vatican has been moving child molesters from parish to parish and in many cases hiding these molesters inside the Vatican for years. So either the new pope is very young or will need to be chosen from the outside of the church which is not going to happen. Whoever is chosen turned a blind eye to this situation. If and we are talking a ****ing huge if the new guy did not know about this he is still just another human and sure as hell is not a substitute of any god on earth~

__________________“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion"
Steven Weinberg~